Deborah Cooke: Author

Category: Reading/Watching

  • Language on the Move

    One of the things that is really interesting about a language like English is how it changes over time. English is changing constantly, as we create new words or new uses for existing words, then fold those new words into our existing vocabulary. This is why dictionaries release new updated editions at regular intervals, to…

  • Love Triangles

    A comment from G here on the blog this weekend got me to thinking about love triangles. I’m not much for love triangles, myself – and yes, I’ll talk about why in a minute – but they do seem to be very fashionable in fiction right now. Any discussion of an urban fantasy book or…

  • The Trouble With Angels

    I’ve had a rummage through my TBR pile and finally decided to read some of the angel books stashed away there. It’s not an accident that they’ve been stashed – while I was writing my own angel series, I didn’t want to read what other authors were doing with angels. But I was interested, so…

  • Another Foreign Movie

    I like watching movies, not just for entertainment value but to discover new storytelling techniques. Movies are often innovative in presenting character, or in twisting the plot, or simply in terms of presenting information. My husband has been haunting the Foreign Films section lately, and has made some really good discoveries. His most recent find…

  • Now For Something Completely Different…

    Did you ever watch Monty Python? That was one of my favourite lines – “and now for something completely different…” – because it always did introduce something that had little to do with whatever had come before. I loved the unexpectedness of that troupe. Anyway, this isn’t a blog about Monty Python. It’s a blog…